NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (KUNA) — India Saturday signed a civil nuclear pact and an Extradition Treaty with Kazakhstan.
Under the civil nuclear pact, Kazakhstan, a uranium-rich Central Asian country, would supply much-needed fuel to atomic plants in India.
India also signed four other pacts, including an Extradition Treaty, in the presence of Indian President Pratibha Patil and her Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev, reported Indian premier news agency Press Trust of India (PTI).
Kazakhstan will provide uranium and related products under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and KazAtomProm, which was also signed Saturday.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who led the delegation level talks in absence of Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh who underwent a heart bypass surgery Saturday morning, inked the Extradition Treaty with his Kazakh counterpart Marat Tazhin.
Besides, an MoU was also signed between ISRO and Kazakh Space Agency for space cooperation.